Gasparik T. Phase Diagrams for Geoscientists: An Atlas of the Earth's Interior

Springer, 2014. — 467 pp. — ISBN: 978-1-4614-5776-3.The book summarizes the results of the experimental studies of phase relations in the chemical systems relevant to Earth, carried out by the author in a time period of over 20 years between 1979 and 2001. It is based on 1000 piston-cylinder experiments at pressures up to 4 GPa, and close to 700 experiments carried out with a multi-anvil apparatus at pressures up to 24 GPA. This is the largest published collection of calculated phase diagrams for the chemical systems relevant to Earth. This is also the first time that the phase relations at the relatively low pressures of the lithospheric mantle, mainly applicable to the experimental thermobarometry of metamorphic rocks and mantle xenoliths, are seamlessly integrated with the phase relations of the sublithospheric upper mantle and the uppermost lower mantle, primarily applicable to inclusions in diamond and schocked meteorites.Thermodynamic Model and Techniques
System MgO–SiO₂
System MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂
System CaO–MgO–SiO₂
System CaO–MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂ Undersaturated with Silica
System CaO–MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂ Saturated with Silica
Systems with Na and Ca at Lithospheric Pressures
System Na₂O–MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂
System Enstatite–Diopside–Jadeite
Composition and Structure of the Earth’s Interior